CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS. 
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CALENDAR OP OPERATIONS. 
The following Calendar for the management of the Rose, during 
each month of the year, is designed for the central parts of the United 
States, including the temperate regions of Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, 
Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, and Illinois. The season of spring com¬ 
mences in the middle latitudes of G-eorgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and 
of Texas, and the northern part of Louisiana, and the southern part 
of Arkansas, about one month earlier; and a month or five weeks 
later in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and in the central latitudes of 
New York, Wisconsin, and of Michigan. The period of sowing, how¬ 
ever, will admit of some latitude, on account of the degree of dryness 
of the soil, and of its exposure to cold or moist winds, and to the solar 
warmth. 
It has long been observed that Nature, in her operations, is so uni¬ 
form, that the forwardness of trees, in unfolding their flowers and 
leaves, is an unerring indication of the forwardness of spring; and 
that the period at which the shrub red bud (Cercis canadensis) puts 
forth, is the proper time to plant Indian corn, and sow in open cul¬ 
ture the seeds of the Rose. 
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Look well to all standard roses; see that their stakes are firmly m 
the ground, and the stocks or trunks are well fastened to them. If the 
heads of standards are very large, compared with the hold they have 
upon the stock, it is necessary that the stock to which the tree is fast¬ 
ened should reach partly through the head, and be fastened to the 
head itself. It is also desirable, when very large growth has been 
made, to shorten, though not properly prune, all the longest branches, 
to lessen the head, that the wind may not have too much power. If 
you have not provided yourself with stocks before this month, lose no 
time, and when procured, prune the roots into moderate form, for they 
will frequently be found straggling and awkward. Besides planting 
out a number in rows, to be worked in the open ground, pot some of 
the most compact-rooted in pots, and plunge them, making a post-and- 
rail sort of frame along them to fasten the stocks to, and prevent them 
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